Yesterday my brother finished kitchen countertops he was working on in the last month. They are made form common walnut wood and food safe epoxy resin. I helped with pouring resin and CNC-machined them. Now we offer custom countertops commercially 
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They look somewhat like x-rays. Very nice!
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Thanks! They remind me of petrified bones
We are also doing a coffee table with same pattern, the resin is already curing for two weeks. I’ll post photos soon.
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Just signed the contract for a house. 
Ten year old cedar cottage:
Big workshop (plus a small garden shed out back):
Two acres of land, with most of the old native trees intact plus a bunch of young plantings:
View from the front gate:
The boat ramp is close enough that I could tow MV Smol there with the ride-on mower.
You can also see the water from the bedroom.
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I regret that I have but one 
to give.
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At least the cast iron pan was improved.
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It’s gorgeous! Congrats!
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So apparently I’m into amateur roadbuilding? I’ve always been fascinated by how we cut roads through hills and mountains before heavy machinery (or even dynamite). Here I am attempting to manually “pave” the most treacherous areas where humans fear to tread if it’s rained within the previous month, and even the horses are super fucking careful.
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I just transplanted my first peas today.
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These are about 7’ tall. May be on a different schedule to you here: soon it will be too hot for most things.
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And it is really easy to make.
Today was the first time ever I used a sewing machine.
I bought one two (or three?) years ago when the local Lidl had some of those plastic Singer Serenades for €70 or so. The first project I had in mind was to make dust covers for various pieces of equipment from old bedsheets. But you know how it is with DIY projects.
If you can sew - don’t look too close at the pictures, the seams are atrocious, but they hold.
The mask itself is, like I said, really easy to make. The design is quite forgiving to bad craftmanship. I used an old cotton t-shirt and a bit of microfibre cloth.
It has also a surprisingly snug fit, see breathing in/breathing out pictures below, and is comfortable to wear. I think this is due to both the facehugger/posing pouch design/shape and the little bit of wire.
Due to the snug fit it didn’t fog my glasses in any way, which obviously is an important point for me.
A good, unobstrusive fit, doesn’t conflict with the glasses (and that’s not a given with masks.)
Breathing in:
Breathing out:
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GLENWHILLY (n. Scots)
A small tartan pouch worn beneath the kilt during the thistle-harvest.
(Adams, Lloyd / The Meaning of Liff)
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Steeped for a month, now we add sugar water to taste, definitely less than what I made up.
Then realized that I had made a double batch, but only used less than a single batch of sugar water (i.e. about 2 1/2 cups of liquid against two fifths of everclear. Probably need to add some water later. Anyway, steeps for another day, then gets strained.
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One of my projects during this sequestration is to digitize my CD collection. I know this isn’t making, crafting, or creating, but I figure there are some folx following this thread that know a thing or two about such matters.
I have maybe 400 CDs, maybe half of which I want to keep. Pretty much all of my playback is Bluetooth. That might change later, but regardless, my goal is to eliminate obsolete physical storage and playback.
For now I’m ripping CDs to a terabyte external drive. I don’t really want to use a cloud service or Google Play, iTunes, whatever. I’d rather have a central repository that I can access all of (for home use), and maybe just copy to my phone or a USB stick for use in the car or wherever.
Alternatively, is it possible to set up a personal media server that I can access anywhere via TCP and play through my phone to Bluetooth?
Just curious if anyone here has done this or has suggestions/tips. Thanks!
ETA: I’m using Windows Media Player to rip, and it’s pretty slow. Better/faster alternatives? Also to be clear, I’ll keep my old CDs just in case
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I don’t know about the server, but I downloaded all my cd’s a few years back, and haven’t had any quality loss that I’ve noticed. For mobility, I still use my Sony Walkman.
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God I wish: my own project (1000 CDs to flac, home media server with remote access) died a horrible death when I had a kid, and I could no longer keep up with the software and hardware.
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That’s not encouraging! Fortunately my kids are grown, even if one of them is living at home (temporarily we hope)
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